THE GOLDFIELDS.
[BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPSNDKNTj. Thames, Friday evening. Ivanhoe (Karangahake). — 27ozs retorted gold from 16 tons from Liddell's reef.
Paroquet (Waiomo). —10 tons are being crushed at Pepper's battery, The Tapu is aid to be shaping well. [by telegraph.press ASSOCIATION.] Hokitik*, Friday, The returns from the Ross United mine for the week were 102oza. All the machinery was working very satisfactorily. The tributers for the Prince of Wales elevators have resumed work, with .a plentiful supply of water. Humphrey's Gully United have had a good week's slucing, and intend to run down the boxes in the course of next week. Nelson, Friday.
Mr. Wright, mining surveyor, has recently returned from a visit to the Ovens reefs, and gives a very favourable account of the large quautitiea of quartz which have been proved. The prospects are very good. A company is b«ing formed in Nelson to provide crushing machinery, and the field is likely to be thoroughly opened up this sutrmer.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7782, 30 October 1886, Page 4
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